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For one of the best summaries of what Apple has done with the iPhone, see the second page of this article from Time:

“The iPhone breaks two basic axioms of consumer technology. One, when you take an application and put it on a phone, that application must be reduced to a crippled and annoying version of itself. Two, when you take two devices—such as an iPod and a phone—and squish them into one, both devices must necessarily become lamer versions of themselves. The iPhone is a phone, an iPod, and a mini-Internet computer all at once, and contrary to Newton—who knew a thing or two about apples—they all occupy the same space at the same time, but without taking a hit in performance. In a way iPhone is the wrong name for it. It’s a handheld computing platform that just happens to contain a phone.”

The only thing I want it to do, that I haven’t seen it do yet is sync up with my iCal… if it does that, I’m buying the 8GB version… who cares if it’s $600… It’ll go along perfectly with the $300 Bose QC3 headphones I just bought